"I have a heightened sense of ____"?

Sadly, this sucks at times because if the smell comes off as too strong, I gag. I went into my Dad’s basement whilst slurping some milk out of a mug, last night, and what would be a light musty smell for some, for me, it was overpowering and made me retch.

I can’t choose just one. My sense of smell, taste, and touch are all very sensitive. I also have very sensitive ears, my husband teases me for it all the time. My vision is poor, but otherwise I think I tend to be hypersensitive to everything. I think it’s just in my nature. Maybe I’m just very alert.

Hearing. As proof, when I used to play flashlight army (complicated game, not enough time to explain, but it involves finding and tagging the other team in the middle of the woods), I could point to where people were when nobody else heard anything. But even more interesting…

One of my friends has a very heightened sense of time. There could be not a single clock in sight, and I could ask him what time is was, and he would be accurate to about 2 or 3 minutes. I could also ask him what day of the week it was on, for example, April 25 1997. He would reply “Friday,” and he was absolutely right.

I’ve got the smell thing too, which can be good or bad. I’m always the person who smells something burning, or gas leaking or something dead or rotten or rancid. But I also smell gingerbread and ocean breezes and pine needles almost to the point of having a big O!

Smell and taste I’m a supertaster, which isn’t as special as it sounds, but I used to have great eye sight and hearing too, now I’m average 20/20 & such. I’m quite sensual, in the tactile format along with other ways. My sense of humor is quite acute. Also my sense of balance is pretty good, nothing special though. And my thermoception is decent too. And…

Hearing… but not in the sense that I could necessarily hear softer sounds or sounds further away than the normal 20-something year old. What I am good at is picking out individual sounds out of a muddle of sounds- give me a piece of music and I’ll be able to pick out most of the instruments and tell you what they are doing :)